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February 3, 2007
Blogging and bloggers
I know, I've been lax in my blogging of late. But I'm trying very hard to reorganize our home so I will eventually have more time for blogging and some of my creative interests.
It's so funny - most people I work with, etc, have never heard of a blog. And since I work in the technology world, and most of them are under 30, it's pretty humourous that their 53-year-old co-worker is more up on stuff than they are. Don't get me wrong, the people I work with are great - especially since I switched over to a different solution - YeeHa!!!
I spent last week learning how to install IBM WebSphere and how to set up our software to work with it on handheld, wireless computers. I love it! But, while I'm learning, I'm not going to be doing a lot of blogging - actually, I have not done a lot of blogging lately anyway! But at least this is a good excuse.
Blogging has been great for me. I have met so many wonderful people via the Internet and blogging - and I've been blessed enough to meet a lot of bloggers in person. Gosh, probably close to 100 by now - I really do need to make a blogroll of the bloggers I've met in person.
It's also very cool that a blogger I have been reading forever, Venomous Kate, is pretty much a neighbor now. We had drinks and appetizers last Saturday evening, and as soon as Kate feels better (she is down with a sinus infection right now), I look so forward to hanging out with her more often.
You see, I'm kind of an odd person. I do not have a lot of friends. It's not that I'm unfriendly, it's just that my interests rarely mesh with people who are neighbors or co-workers. As a result, the people I'm most comfortable with and happy being around tend to be bloggers - we have something in common - viewpoints or interests - I have made friends that mean more to me than any friends I've ever had thru email and my blog and their blogs.
Bloggers, at least the ones I link to, are brighter than the average "man on the street". They have critical thinking skills. They are erudite. They are funny.
My neighbors are nice people. However, they are pretty technology-illiterate. They are more interested in Survivor or the SuperBowl than in the state of the world or politics or artsy stuff or critters.
I like everyone I've met at blog meets, etc., more than my neighbors and most of my co-workers.
Yay bloggers!
Posted by Beth at February 3, 2007 4:49 PM
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Oh Beth, I know exactly what you mean. I don't do "small talk" either. Give me a blogger any day. You and John are great people and I would be honored to be your neighbor but I'll settle for being Internet friends!
Posted by: Janette at February 3, 2007 10:02 PM
Yay, bloggers, indeed!
I'm like you: if they're technologically illiterate, chances are I've got nothing to talk about with them past the first hour. Today's news? Well, yes, I read the paper. Then I read 327 other papers, too, along with 200+ bloggers' opinions. Kinda makes me lose patience with folks who haven't given much thought to what's about to come out of their mouth.
You, on the other hand, are a wonderful breath of fresh air! We didn't have to do "small talk" (which, frankly, I think is for small minds). Hanging out with you the first time was almost like hanging out with someone else for the fifth or sixth time. Does that make sense?
I'm looking forward to our second time! And I hope to meet John soon, too!
Posted by: Venomous Kate at February 3, 2007 11:29 PM
"I do not have a lot of friends. It's not that I'm unfriendly, it's just that my interests rarely mesh with people who are neighbors or co-workers."
Sister, I *hear* ya.
The great thing about blogging is that it lets you find the cool people you'd LIKE to hang out with that you just don't find in a typical pool of randomly selected geographic co-habitants.
Posted by: Harvey at February 5, 2007 9:51 AM